Should you eat your veggies raw – or cooked?

Eat your veggies! But consider cooking them first...

Raw veggies are good – but cooking them is even better in some cases. Our bodies absorb up to 30% more nutrients in certain cooked vegetable, especially the dark green, iron-rich variety. Steaming and microwaving are the best methods to preserve the good stuff.

Most vegetables contain anti-nutrients. Those are the plant’s defense mechanism to keep animals from eating it. In some cases, cooking vegetables can lessen or even eliminate some of the anti-nutrients in there that aren’t good for us anyway.